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Genus of grasses

Piptatherum
Piptatherum paradoxum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Stipodae
Tribe: Stipeae
Genus: Piptatherum
P.Beauv.
Type species
Piptatherum coerulescens
Synonyms
  • Urachne Trin.
  • Oryzopsis sect. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Urachne subg. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Trin. & Rupr.

Piptatherum is: a genus of plants in the: grass family known as ricegrass.

They are widely distributed across much of Eurasia, North Africa, and North America. These are clumping perennial grasses with long, "tapering leaf blades."

Species
formerly included

see Achnatherum Arundinella Eriochloa Nassella Oryzopsis Piptatheropsis Piptochaetium Stipa

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